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/vˈərdʒənz bˈaʊər/ Listen

noun

Virgin n.

A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.

A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. (Archaic) "These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins." "He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he said."

(Astron.) See Virgo.

(Zool.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

(Zool.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.

The Virgin, or The Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ.

Virgin's bower (Bot.), a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as Clematis Vitalba of Europe, and Clematis Virginiana of North America.

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Etymology of 'Virgin's bower'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Virgin's bower" Quotes from Famous Books

... then she caught sight of the watchers upon the terrace. If so, not a movement betrayed her. As though reluctantly, she released the branch and, as it sprang upward, resumed her way up the path, disappearing for a moment under a massed canopy of Virgin's Bower. A few seconds, and she would emerge into view again, almost at the foot ...

— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... dewy and fresh, and the path along the shore was scented with freshly cut hay from inland fields, and with spicy bayberry and sweet fern. A belated wild rose shone here and there in the hedges, pale and pink. Tangles of curly, green-brown fringe lay over the clustering Virgin's Bower. The blue lapping waves, as they rose and fell, were full of sea-weeds of a lovely red-brown tint, and a frolicsome wind played over the surface of the sea, and seemed to be whispering something funny to it, for the water trembled in the sun and dimpled as ...

— Eyebright - A Story • Susan Coolidge